Shashi Tharror said, India needs a pleader and not a bleeder. (Photo: File/PTI)
NEW DELHI: Escalating the war of words in this election season, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has dubbed BJP’s PM nominee Narendra Modi as ‘bleeder’ and the saffron party’s Amritsar candidate Arun Jaitley as ‘pleader’ to counter the Opposition party’s ‘reader’ jibe against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
When asked to comment on Mr Jatiley’s jibe against the PM as “just a reader and not a leader,” AICC spokesperson Shashi Tharoor said, India does not need “a bleeder or a pleader” as a Prime Minister without naming the two BJP leaders.
Dr Tharoor also questioned Mr Jaitley’s attack on Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and said why BJP was targeting a ‘private individual,’ who is neither a member of a political party nor a candidate in this Lok Sabha polls.
Mr Jaitley had taken potshots at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his blog saying that he had “walked on snow, but did not leave any footprints,” a day after PMO sought to counter the perception that Dr Singh has been ‘weak’ during his tenure.
Responding to Mr Jaitley’s charge on the PM, Mr Tharoor said, “We need a Prime Minister to be a leader and not to be a bleeder, someone who bleeds the nation rather than leading it. We do not need a bleeder or a pleader.”
The Congress has been using the ‘bleeder’ term in an obvious reference to 2002 post-Godhara riots in Gujarat.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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